Crime Statistics for calendar year ending 31 December 2008
Released 1 April 2009
Introduction
The statistics in this document come from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.
A Recorded Offence is an incident reported or detected by Police. The offence is considered a Resolved Cffence when an offender has been identified and dealt with (warned, cautioned or prosecuted).
Please note: If an offence is resolved 15 days or more after the end of the year it will not appear in the Official Crime Statistics for that or any other year. The Resolution Rate therefore undercounts the number of cases that Police have resolved. This phenomenon has a more marked impact for some types of offences than others, such as offences that require long investigations (E.g. many serial crimes, burglaries and murders).
The Resolution Rate is the percentage of Recorded Offences that are resolved.
Graph 1 illustrates the overall recorded offences per 10,000 population. While Graph 2 illustrates the overall resolution rate (% of recorded offences that are resolved):

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National Statistics for fiscal year ending 31 December 2008 [PDF, 233 KB]
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Northland District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [PDF, 191 KB]
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Waitematā Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [PDF, 200 KB]
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Auckland City District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [ PDF, 197 KB]
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Waikato District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [ PDF, 196 KB]
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Bay of Plenty District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [ PDF, 199 KB]
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Eastern District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [PDF, 195 KB]
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Central District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [ PDF, 207 KB]
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Wellington District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [ PDF, 204 KB]
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Tasman District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [PDF, 194 KB]
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Canterbury District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [PDF, 201 KB]
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Southern District Stats for year ending 31 December 2008 [ PDF, 196 KB]
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